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Buzz Out Loud 1336: Introducing the Nook hook (podcast)

On today's show, we're predicting what Barnes and Noble will announce tomorrow for the Nook--early mockups seem to indicate a mystery hook on the bottom that could maybe, uh, attach to your belt-loop? Also, Google admits that the 600GB of data "fragments" it collected from its Street View cars might kind of, funnily enough, include email addresses, passwords, and complete email text. Oh, and phone numbers. Great. --Molly

Molly Wood Former Executive Editor

Molly Wood was an executive editor at CNET, author of the Molly Rants blog, and host of the tech show, Always On. When she's not enraging fanboys of all stripes, she can be found offering tech opinions on CBS and elsewhere, and offering opinions on everything else to anyone who will listen.

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Oct. 25, 2010 12:08 p.m. PT

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Watch this: Ep. 1336: Introducing the Nook hook

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Email (buzz@cnet.com)

Buz
A quick note on Android, Android itself is open, the closed part is what the carriers embed on the OS. Once they sink into it there are parts of the OS that are closed. So essentially it is closed. To develop an app, we have major issues getting the app to work on all the phones. The developer support for the different phones is also varied between Sony, LG, Samsung, Motorola etc. They all have different programs, costs etc. The other big issue is the fragmentation of the OS, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2. etc. Droid will get an update in U.S. but they will not be doing the update in Canada on the Milestone, so that alone causes issues with an app in what will or will not work. So when Jobs made the comment about having to test the app on 100′s of variations, he was not lying.

Love the show
Dave- Developer in Toronto

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Hey buzztown,

first of all, sorry I’m late with this but here I go anyway [clears throat] Well actually it’s not NAT, or Network Address Translation, that averted the IPv4 crisis, it’s PAT, or Port Address Translation, because NAT translates public to private IPs n:n, while PAT translates them 1:n with ports on the router equalling private IPs.

Good luck and stuff,
Martin Fellner, soldier of the Austrian Armed Forces

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Hey Buzzards,

There is a new Firefox plug-in called Firesheep that makes “sidejacking” really easy. This is also known as “session stealing” which steals the session cookie on sites that don’t use HTTPS.

In a nutshell, if you log into Facebook on a public network, and I have Firesheep running, I can also log into Facebook as you. Fun!

Buzz Out Loud 1336: Introducing the Nook hook (podcast)

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